August von Kaufmann

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August Carl Heinrich von Kaufmann (born January 5, 1791 in Hanover , † May 4, 1846 in Medingen ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

August von Kaufmann was one of the sons of the Hanoverian court councilor Johann Friedrich von Kaufmann (1757–1833), who was raised to imperial nobility in 1784 . He studied law at the University of Göttingen , where, like his older brother, he joined the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . After the gendarme affair , he moved to Heidelberg University in the fall of 1809 , where he was one of the founders of the Corps Hannovera Heidelberg . At the end of October 1810 he returned to the University of Göttingen. August von Kaufmann took part in the Wars of Liberation and was a participant in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. He then entered the administrative service of the Kingdom of Hanover and worked as an official assessor from 1818 to 1839 in Steyerberg, Stolzenau, Celle and Gifhorn. In 1840 he was promoted to magistrate in Gifhorn . August von Kaufmann became the Hanoverian senior bailiff of the tax forest near Hildesheim and as such took over the office of Medingen in the Landdrostei Lüneburg in 1842 .

His older brother Christoph Ludwig Dietrich von Kaufmann (1788–1867) also became a Hanoverian administrative lawyer and first official in Hameln. Of the younger brothers, Georg Christian Hermann (1794–1869) became the secret medical advisor and personal physician to the Queen in Hanover and Adolf Georg Otto von Kaufmann († 1848) also became an administrative lawyer.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrolled in Göttingen on April 25, 1809
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42 , 10
  3. ^ Enrolled in Heidelberg October 30, 1809
  4. Curschmann, Blaubuch p. 271, No. 027
  5. 2nd matriculation in Göttingen on October 26, 1810
  6. Curschmann, Blaubuch , No. 2
  7. Curschmann, Blaubuch , No. 107; Wilhelm Rothert : Hannoversche men and women since 1866 ( General Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 1), Sponholtz, Hannover 1912, p. 349 with his son.
  8. Curschmann, Blaubuch , No. 316